So 2.6.39-rc1 is out there, and the merge window is closed. I stillhave to look over the cleancache pull request (which I got in plentyof time, but decided that I want to review after the merge windowcraziness is over), but other than that, we're done.

What to say about the merge window? It _feels_ like it was alldrivers, filesystems and irq cleanups. The dirstat backs up thedrivers part (65%), but claims that we had way more arch updates thanfilesystem stuff (and the bulk of that is ARM, and while _some_ ofthat was the irq conversions, most of it is just the normal boardchurn). On the arch side, the first steps of unifying m68k andm68knommu is a nice sign, let's see how that all pans out in the longrun. Oh, and there's the new unicore32 architecture.

Elsewhere, we had a fair amount of VFS cleanup, and also introducedthe "filehandle" interfaces (along with open(..,O_PATH)). Althoughmost people won't care.

Perhaps a bit more interesting to a larger part of the kernelcommunity is the new block device plugging model - it makes plugging aper-thread thing and cleaned up the code considerably. It also avoidslots of locking in a very hot path, and should generally be a reallygood idea. That said, it also at one point ate XFS filesystems forbreakfast, but that's fixed and it's hopefully all good now.

Anything else? I'm sure I've forgotten something really exciting. Buton the whole I think this should be one of those "solid, boringprogress" releases.